BTW, what is missing from the system this Ivy fellow came up with, is a weekly review. I find that is critical to identify the most import tasks to work on. If you only come up with a list of tasks at the end of the day, then you might miss the most important things. The weekly review gives me an overview of all my commitments and there I pick the 3-5 projects I want to work on during the week. These guide me in the tasks I pick to include in Today.
It’s never made sense to me to pay extra for a nicer finish on what’s basically a disposable watch. Fine watches are a different category entirely.
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I have, probably on more than one occasion, referred to my AirPods as a subscription. Now that all of Apple’s devices are not upgradeable and, with the exception of the battery may not be economically repairable, the same may be true of everything.
So I never try to “future proof” my purchases. I buy what I think I will need in the next three years and roll the dice. 
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I think I’ve written on here about my relationship with Apple Notes before, but I’m not sure I’ve ever summed it up. In pondering your question this morning, I think it’s 3 issues:
- For me, it becomes a dumping ground, and a mishmash of a lot of different things, which makes it hard to process what’s in there.
- I want markdown and easy movement of files.
- I remain annoyed about their decision to change the colour of the notes (I know this happened many iOS’s ago. I am still not over it).
The problem is that Apple Notes was the first note-taking app I ever used on iPhone and iPad (I suspect that’s true for most users globally), and it’s still the one I reach for unconsciously if I need to scribble something quickly (I don’t have this issue on my Mac, where Apple Notes wasn’t an app I ever built a habit with).
The reason I don’t want to encourage this behaviour in myself is mostly points 1 and 2. The mix of work and personal, long-term and short-term, important and daft notes all in one place makes it not a good app for me. I use folders in there but rarely start notes in the right folder (as I said, I reach for it when I need something quickly). Plus I keep a lot of random reference notes in there. They don’t need to be “processed” or moved anywhere, I just need them when I need them.
I have Drafts for work and work-adjacent notes. I have Tot for temporary notes. But the muscle memory just isn’t there for those apps on i*OS (I use them on Mac). Drafts is set up exactly how I like it and is perfect. I have defined workflows for processing things.
Unfortunately Apple has made Notes better with iOS 18 and the handwriting engine is really nice. It also switches really well from handwriting to typing and back again, which very few (or any?) note-taking apps do well. I’ve used it a few times for writing meeting notes these last couple of weeks (which I don’t have a workflow for processing and really need to sort out!). I really don’t want meeting notes mixed in with random lists of games I want to play, security details for a company, the name of the paint I used in the hallway, etc… That’s why I have Drafts!